SFGAM is my home park, and if traffic isnt bad it is about a 40-45 minute drive. And usually when we go early in the morning traffic isnt too bad, but road construction has been a pain this year and will likely be the same next year.

Nashville Tn, since we lost opryland, my choices are Dollywood 3.5 hour drive, Ky Kingdom 3 hour drive, SF over Georgia 4 hrs..you know which one I made the drive to 3 times this year?? UNIVERSAL ORLANDO!-Brandonps..Orlando is a 10 hour drive from Nashville, shows how much I love universal, I dont even give the other parks a thought.

Shoot, we're way up here in Washington state and aren't near any amusement park, unless you count Enchanted Parkway or whatever they're calling it these days. That must be the reason why we get excited every time we get ready to take a vacation to a theme park, or why we get excited when we hear about new rides coming to a park!

I only live about two and a half, three hours away from Disney World, Universal and Sea World. Barring traffic on I-4, anyway. It's a convenient distance, really. I enjoy being so close to my favorite theme parks.

I feel I am very fortunate to live in Orlando and am only 15-30 minutes from any park barring a traffic snarl and now we take 429 to WDW, so that pretty much eliminates the traffic going there.

One of the things we like best is being able to go to a park just for a walk around or to have lunch, then if it is too crowded, just leave and do something else! It really makes our visits enjoyable and keeps the parks fresh for us!

I currently live 45 min from Kings Island and work 5 min up the street. I used to live 20 min from SFGAM and 10 min from Disney's Animal Kingdom. Honestly, the best drive I've had when it comes to theme parks is driving home every night from WDW with the Magic Kingdom fireworks in my rearview mirror.

I live in Jacksonville Fl, if I go directly from here to Universal or DIsney is about 2 1/2 hours, but I usually stay at my parents house and thats only a 20-30 minute drive. I was raised in Orlando and still consider it my home and i feel so lucky to have 7 major theme parks near me.

In fact I just got home from Busch Gardens Africa. Rode everything I wanted to ride in under 4 hours. No crowd, everyone smiling and in a mellow mood - this is why I moved to Florida! We're an hour from the Mouse, an hour 15 from Sea World, and we don't believe in Universal (but if we did, we'd be an hour 20 from there). Nine hours from SFGa, and we have to pass Valdosta to get there.

I live in VA. I am 45 minutes from KD and 1 hr. and 45 min. from BGE. This is a wonderful place to be because both parks are fun (although BGE does things at a much higher level than KD). I consider both to be my "home parks". I am within 2 hours of Apollo's Chariot, Alpengeist, Volcano, Griffon, Flight of Fear, Grizzly, etc., and, soon, Dominator! My family has passes to both parks and we visit each 8-10 times each year.

I live about 1 1/2 hrs to 2 hrs from SFNE. Still, I flew to the Orlando parks this spring and drove 12 hrs to get to BGE in September. I didn't even go to SFNE at all. I guess it's a good thing I don't live too close to any park, I'd never get anything done aside from my actual job.

I used to live about 10 minutes from Kennywood, but only went there once a year during the School Picnic. I was terrified of the Jack Rabbit and the Pippin. Now, I get to go back there every couple of years to ride the Thunderbolt, the Jack Rabbit, and the Phantom. I'm going to try and get to Hersheypark and Dollywood this next summer.

I currently live in northern California, and live about 5 minutes from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. They're putting in "Tony Hawk's Big Spin" coaster over the winter in time for a spring opening, so I'll be getting my season's pass soon. It's nice to have some decent coasters to ride so close to home - Medusa, Roar, and Vertical Velocity are pretty good.

I'm an hour and a half (give or take a couple of minutes) from the Disney parks, Universal, Busch Gardens and Cypress Gardens (a forgotten gem). The parks are close enough to do in a day and far enough that staying for a weekend is an occasional option.

I live 10 minutes away from Six Flags America. I'm about 1 1/2 hours from Kings Dominion & about 2 1/2 hours from Busch Gardens Europe & Six Flags Great Adventure. I actually hit KD, SFGA & BGE more than I do SFA. Me & my buddies usually only do SFA for some quick swimming & water rides.

I'm fortunate to live near Daytona Beach so theme park access is only 75 minutes to Universal Orlando and another 15-20 minutes down I-4 to Disney World. Of course I-4 traffic dictates everything. Sometimes its better and faster to take a longer route even if you have to use your EPASS. Locals know what I mean.

I'm 15 to 45 min from Disneyland, depending on traffic. About the same for Knott's. Universal and Magic Mountain is about 45 min to an hour away. We can get to most of the San Diego parks within 2 hours.

I made a slight error. I voted 'Have to fly,' but we do have two zoos within less than an hour's drive (Woodland Park and Pt. Defiance), and Canada's Greater Vancouver Zoo is only about three hours north.

Our nearest true-interactive animal park, in Bandon (Oregon), is about seven hours to drive and about four hours by air/drive (taking into account the trip to the airport).

The next nearest parks that I would truly consider "decent" are the two Mexican nature parks south of Cancun, which are about seven and some-odd hours away by air/drive.

I know that some may be scratching their heads over that one, considering that we're in Washington (state), and we have California in our path south. Let me explain: None of the California "theme" parks hold any further interest for myself or my wife.